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The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), in the latest edition of its weekly Arabic language newspaper al-Naba, praised the men behind last weekend’s Minnesota mall stabbings and the Orlando massacre in June, but they did not mention the suspect linked to the bombings in New York and New Jersey.

Al-Qaeda, echoing previous attempts to stoke racial unrest, called on African Americans to convert to its extremist form of Islam in a video released days from the 9/11 anniversary.

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The number of U.S. born cases of active TB in the state actually declined from 8 in 2013 to 7 in 2014. But the number of foreign-born cases of active TB in Nebraska more than doubled in one year, from 13 in 2013, to 31 in 2014. According to the Centers for Disease Control, only 61.9 percent of the active TB cases in 2013, or 13 out of 21, were foreign-born.

Health authorities have recorded 5,702 new cases of female genital mutilation in just one year, official figures show, equivalent to more than 100 cases every week.

A woman accused of funneling money to the al Qaeda-linked group al Shabaab willingly admitted that she is an ardent supporter of the Somalia-based terrorist organization on the first day of her trial.

TEL AVIV – In an unprecedented move, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the president of Somalia, a Muslim country that does not recognize the State of Israel, a source close to the Somali leader told The Times of Israel.

Gunmen stormed a hotel in Somalia’s seaside capital Saturday, taking guests hostage and “shooting at everyone they could see,” before security forces pursued the grenade-throwing assailants to the top floor and ended the hours-long assault, police and witnesses said. At least 14 people were killed.

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Gunmen who stormed a hotel in Somalia’s capital have taken an unknown number of hotel guests hostage, police said Saturday, as the attackers set up snipers on the rooftop and were throwing grenades. Islamic extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the latest in a series of hotel assaults in Mogadishu.

Militants from the al-Shabaab jihadist group attacked a police vehicle in northern Kenya Monday morning, firing a rocket propelled grenade that killed five officers, leaving two of them burnt beyond recognition.

Boko Haram – one of 34 ISIS affiliates and among the world’s deadliest terror groups – in 2014 notoriously kidnapped more than 200 school girls in Chibok, Nigeria. The administration responded with a memorable Twitter campaign featuring First Lady Michelle Obama holding a placard with the

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Taliban jihadists replaced their Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) counterparts as the world’s chief perpetrators of terrorism attacks last year, with 1,093 individual attacks, according to the U.S. Department of State’s Country Reports on Terrorism 2015.

Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto said Tuesday that the nation has definitively decided to shut down the Dadaab refugee camp, believed to be the world’s largest, because it has become a reliable recruitment center for the jihadi group Al-Shabaab.

Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, is criticizing the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for allowing refugees to enter the United States without screening and treatment for latent tuberculosis.

A U.S. military airstrike recently targeted the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab terrorist group in southern Somalia, killing five jihadists and wounding two others, reveals the Pentagon.

The trial of three Somali-American men accused of planning to join the Islamic State began with some courtroom drama, as ten prospective jurors declared they could not be impartial towards the defendants, and one defense lawyer told the judge he has been feuding with his client.

Police in Kenya say they foiled a potentially “large-scale” terrorist plot to kill innocent civilians using the biological agent anthrax that was planned by an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked cell of jihadi medics seeking to recruit university students.

Kenya has announced it will begin erecting a nearly 435-mile-long wall along its northeastern border with Somalia to stem the flow of jihadists from the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab.

More than 400 drowned when a vessel crammed with migrants capsized early Monday morning during an attempt to make the crossing from Egypt to southern Italy across the perilous Strait of Sicily. The migrants were mostly Somalis, along with some

The Palermo Court of Appeals confirmed the 30-year sentence of Somali migrant smuggler Mouhamud Elmi Muhidin Friday, found guilty of human trafficking, criminal racketeering aimed at illegal immigration and sexual violence. Muhidin was the captain of a vessel loaded with

A left wing activist has bared all to a Norwegian documentary crew about his rape at the hands of a Somalian migrant, and his despair at seeing the man deported. An active member of the Norwegian Socialist Left Party (SV)

A young girl has been repeatedly threatened and attacked, on one occasion needing hospital treatment, after being victimised by the friends and family of her rapist, according to reports. Somalian migrant “Muhammed” received just 180 hours (22 days) of community

A day-long protest by immigrants Monday on the Italian resort island of Sardinia paralyzed city traffic in the capital city of Cagliari, as Eritrean and Somali protesters sat or lay down in the streets preventing any flow of traffic. “Cagliari

A BBC department that produced a radio drama giving practical tips to would-be migrants on how to cross from Somalia to Europe received nearly £90 million of British tax payers’ money. The drama, broadcast to Somalia and Kenya at the

Police have reportedly warned that the Somalia-based terror group al Shabaab may be heading towards Kenya. The warning comes after the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF), backed by Somalia’s national army, killed 34 al Shabaab jihadists in two separate attacks over the

Italian counterterrorist police have arrested a 22-year-old Somali imam and asylum-seeker, for planning a terror attack on the city of Rome as well as “intense and vehement proselytism” among migrants for jihad. On Wednesday, police moved swiftly to arrest the

Another piece slides across the board between Saudi Arabia and Iran in the Middle Eastern game of thrones, as Djibouti, recently estranged from Iran, prepares to sign a deal that will give Saudi Arabia a military base in the East African country.

Both manned and unmanned aircraft were reportedly used in a massive U.S. airstrike on a training camp for the al-Shabaab terrorist organization in Somalia on Saturday.

A federal court in Minnesota has launched an unprecedented program to weigh the menace posed by terrorism defendants and develop plans to deradicalize them so they do not commit similar crimes in the future.

The President of Somalia suggested this week that a massacre of Kenyan soldiers by the Sunni jihadi group al-Shabaab killed up to 100 more people than originally reported, making it the deadliest massacre in the terrorist group’s history. Kenyan officials are refuting the claim.

Travelers from Visa Waiver Program countries who have visited Libya, Somalia, and Yemen will need to obtain a visa in order to travel to the U.S. under new Department of Homeland Security travel restrictions.

The President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, asserted at a security conference Sunday that Islamic State affiliate Boko Haram has sent its jihadists across the country from Nigeria to train in Somalia.

A Somali man charged into a Columbus, Ohio, restaurant on Thursday evening and immediately began attacking innocent patrons with a machete, according to reports.

The investigation into last Tuesday’s explosion aboard a passenger jet outbound from Mogadishu, Somalia has uncovered airport security video that evidently shows airport employees handing the bomb off to the passenger who would ultimately blow a hole in the side of the plane, becoming the only victim of the attack.

An airliner owned by Dubai-based Daallo Airlines was forced to make an emergency landing just minutes after taking off from Mogadishu, Somalia, on Tuesday, after an explosion blew a hole in the fuselage.